Shielding & Nuclear
Extremely High Shielding Performance
Containers and shielding for radioactive materials.
ANVILOY® alloys are ideal for shielding against X rays and gamma radiation. ANVILOY® tungsten shielding is more than 60% denser than lead, allowing a reduction in the size of shielding components, without compromising their shielding effectiveness and characteristics.
ANVILOY® tungsten shielding can be used in applications such as:
Collimators
Nuclear shielding
Beamstop
PET syringe shields
Vial shields
Isotope containers
FDG containers
Multi-leaf collimator
More
ANVILOY® Benefits and Applications
ANVILOY® products with extreme density to ensure the highest possible shielding performance in the smallest of spaces:
Shielding components
Source container
Collimators
Application examples of ANVILOY® shielding:
Transport container for radioactive substances
Radiation source holder in measuring devices
Radiation shielding of radioactive substances in chemotherapy
Collimator sheets in magnetic resonance tomographs
ANVILOY® Advantages vs. Lead
ANVILOY® Advantage
+ Mass density 18.7g / cm³
+ physically and chemically stable
+ environmentally friendly
Shortcomings of Lead
Mass density of lead 13.2g / cm³
Physically and chemically unstable
Environmentally harmful
Anviloy® Used in
Friction Bonding Research
Microstructural Examination to Aid in Understanding Friction Bonding Fabrication Technique for Monolithic Nuclear Fuel
by Karen Schropshire
Idaho National Laboratory
U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratory operated by Battelle Energy Alliance
April 2008
Monolithic nuclear fuel is currently being developed for use in research reactors, and friction bonding (FB) is a technique being developed to help in this fuel’s fabrication. Since both FB and monolithic fuel are new concepts, research is needed to understand the impact of varying FB fabrication parameters on fuel plate characteristics. This thesis research provides insight into the FB process and its application to the monolithic fuel design by recognizing and understanding the microstructural effects of varying fabrication parameters (a) FB tool load, and (b) FB tool face alloy